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Grammar and the modern world

Do you find it annoying that spelling words incorrectly has become the norm?

For example, "How R U?" or "Your L8," have become acceptable forms of communication. Words have been shortened to make texting easier, but who really needs to spend 5 hours per day text messaging everyone they've ever met?

Drives me crazy. I'm not "up" on all of the acronyms and I hate having to try and figure out what the person means. Or, DOES it mean something or did the spell the word wrong. Yes, I do know what the ones in your example mean =)

It drives me insane. It also bothers me to no end that public schools don't consider legible handwriting important, since we will all be typing anyway. That to me is just asinine. The language may be dynamic (which is what I think PP meant since "static" means unchanging) but text-speak is not language, it's incredibly lazy.

Not at all. The English language is static, not fixed. Always has been, always will be.

I doubt there are many people on this site that could successfully read 'The Cantebury Tales' by Chaucer because it's written in Olde English...just six hundred years ago. Then compare that to Shakespear's Middle English four hundred years ago, and that to Mary Percy Shelly's 'Frankenstien' from about a hundred years ago, and that to something by a current writer.

People responded to those changes the same way, and yet the changes continued. Same thing with this. No point in being bothered by it because it's going to go forward with or without me.